Jeremy is not in our school.A.TrueB.False
Jeremy is not in our school.
A.True
B.False
Jeremy is not in our school.
A.True
B.False
Ann is an American boy.
A.True
B.False
A、unfriendly
B、unfriend
C、not friend
D、not friendly
BLACK DIAMOND ARCHIVES
February 27
Ms. Susan Lanford
Lanford, Ltd.
Dear Ms. Lanford,
Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding our filing services. This letter is to follow up on our call of February 23 and to set forth our terms in writing for your reference and company approval.
As you know, Black Diamond Archives has been a trusted partner since 1937 to the thousands of companies that turn to us for their records management needs. We have 400 records centers worldwide where we offer storage, duplication, and shredding of documents.
In our conversation we discussed the standard pick-up and storage rate for approximately 40 to 50 cartons of files, to be taken to our fully air-conditioned Westhaven facility. I am pleased to inform. you that after further consideration I am able to offer you a special volume rate of $300 per month, plus a $60 pick-up fee, effective March 1. If this special rate is acceptable, please call me at 699-555-1857 as soon as possible, and I will send over an authorization form. for your signature. I look forward to doing business with you.
Yours truly,
Jeremy Tartt
Jeremy Tartt
Manager
DIAL-A-FILE
HOME OFFICE SERVICES
Dear Potential Customer:
Your company's name was given to us as someone who might be interested in huge savings on their file organization costs. You may not have heard of us before now, but ask any of our customers about Dial-A-File, and you'll hear about our great reputation.
Call us anytime, and we'll bring a large filing cabinet to your office very quickly on the same day. When it is full and ready to be stored, just call us again, and we'll pick it up within three hours. Anytime you need access to those files, we will deliver the cabinet to your office within 24 hours. That is the Dial-A-File advantage: we come to you whenever you need us. We even offer free pickup and delivery for customers signing a five-year contract.
Our storage facility has state-of-the-art security and automatic climate control systems. For more information about our services and customer testimonials, please check out our Web site at www.dialafile.com.
Sincerely yours,
Matt Weinstein
A.They store files.
B.They record meetings in company offices.
C.They provide air-conditioning for office facilities.
D.They design filing cabinets.
Passage 5 The high-tech world of clocks and schedules, computers and programs was supposed to free us from a life of toil and deprivation, yet with each passing day the human race becomes more enslaved, exploited, and victimized. Millions starve while a few live in splendor. The human race remains divided from itself and severed from the natural world that is its primordial community. We now orchestrate an artificial time world, zipping along the electronic circuits of silicon chips, a time world utterly alien from the time a fruit takes to ripen, or a tide takes to receded. We have sped ourselves out of the time world of nature and into a fabricated time world where experience can only be simulated but no longer savored. Our weekly routines and work lives are punctuated with artificial rhythms, the unholy union of perspective and power. And with each new electric dawn and dusk, we grow further apart from each other, more isolated and alone, more in control and less self-assured. -- From “Time Wars” by Jeremy Rifkin The author’s first paragraph primarily serves to:
A、describe how humans have split from the natural world and have embraced technology.
B、identify the primary methods humans use to organize their lives.
C、criticize technology because it causes humans to turn from the natural world.
D、illustrate the ways in which humans are exploited by technology.
Passage 3 The high-tech world of clocks and schedules, computers and programs was supposed to free us from a life of toil and deprivation, yet with each passing day the human race becomes more enslaved, exploited, and victimized. Millions starve while a few live in splendor. The human race remains divided from itself and severed from the natural world that is its primordial community. We now orchestrate an artificial time world, zipping along the electronic circuits of silicon chips, a time world utterly alien from the time a fruit takes to ripen, or a tide takes to receded. We have sped ourselves out of the time world of nature and into a fabricated time world where experience can only be simulated but no longer savored. Our weekly routines and work lives are punctuated with artificial rhythms, the unholy union of perspective and power. And with each new electric dawn and dusk, we grow further apart from each other, more isolated and alone, more in control and less self-assured. -- From “Time Wars” by Jeremy Rifkin The author’s first paragraph primarily serves to:
A、identify the primary methods humans use to organize their lives.
B、criticize technology because it causes humans to turn from the natural world.
C、illustrate the ways in which humans are exploited by technology.
D、describe how humans have split from the natural world and have embraced technology.
Ann and Jeremy are in the same school.
A.True
B.False
第1篇
The Gene Industry
Major companies and already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology. They dream of placing enzymes in the automobile to monitor exhaust and send data on pollution to a microprocessor that will then adjust the engine. They speak of what the New York Times calls "metal-hungry microbes that might be used to mine valuable trace metals from ocean water". They have already demanded and won the right to patent new life forms.
Nervous critics, including many scientists, worry that there is corporate, national, international, and inter-scientific rivalry in the entire biotechnological field. They create images not of oil spills, but of "microbe spills" that could spread disease and destroy entire populations. The creation and accidental release of extremely poisonous microbes, however, is only one cause for alarm. Completely rational and respectable scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger the imagination.
Should we breed people with cow-like stomachs so they can digest grass and hay, thereby relieving the food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the food chain? Should we biologically alter workers to fit the job requirement, for example, creating pilots with faster reaction times or assembly-line workers designed to do our monotonous work for us? Should we attempt to eliminate "inferior" people and breed a" super-race"? (Hitler tried this, but without the genetic weaponry that may soon issue from our laboratories.) Should we produce soldiers to do our fighting? Should we use genetic forecasting to pre-eliminate "unfit" babies? Should we grow reserve organs for ourselves, each of us having, as it were, a "savings bank" full of spare kidney, livers or hands?
Wild as these notions may sound, every one has its advocates (and opposers) in the scientific community as well as its striking commercial application. As two critics of genetic engineering, Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, state in their book Who Should Play God? "Broad Scale genetic engineering will probably be introduced to America much the same way as assembly lines, automobiles, vaccines, computers and all the other technologies. As each new genetic advance becomes commercially practical, a new consumer need will be exploited and a market for the new technology will be created."
According to the passage, the exhaust from a car engine could probably be checked by______.
A. using metal-hungry microbes
B. making use of enzymes
C. adjusting the engine
D. patenting new life forms
The Gene Industry
Major companies and already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology. They dream of placing enzymes in the automobile to monitor exhaust and send data on pollution to a microprocessor that will then adjust the engine. They speak of what the New York Times calls "metal-hungry microbes that might be used to mine valuable trace metals from ocean water". They have already demanded and won the right to patent new life forms.
Nervous critics, including many scientists, worry that there is corporate, national, international, and inter-scientific rivalry in the entire biotechnological field. They create images not of oil spills, but of "microbe spills" that could spread disease and destroy entire populations. The creation and accidental release of extremely poisonous microbes, however, is only one cause for alarm. Completely rational and respectable scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger the imagination.
Should we breed people with cow-like stomachs so they can digest grass and hay, thereby relieving the food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the food chain? Should we biologically alter workers to fit the job requirement, for example, creating pilots with faster reaction times or assembly-line workers designed to do our monotonous work for us? Should we attempt to eliminate "inferior" people and breed a" super-race"? (Hitler tried this, but without the genetic weaponry that may soon issue from our laboratories.) Should we produce soldiers to do our fighting? Should we use genetic forecasting to pre-eliminate "unfit" babies? Should we grow reserve organs for ourselves, each of us having, as it were, a "savings bank" full of spare kidney, livers or hands?
Wild as these notions may sound, every one has its advocates (and opposers) in the scientific community as well as its striking commercial application. As two critics of genetic engineering, Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, state in their book Who Should Play God? "Broad Scale genetic engineering will probably be introduced to America much the same way as assembly lines, automobiles, vaccines, computers and all the other technologies. As each new genetic advance becomes commercially practical, a new consumer need will be exploited and a market for the new technology will be created."
According to the passage, the exhaust from a car engine could probably be checked by______.
A.using metal-hungry microbes
B.making use of enzymes
C.adjusting the engine
D.patenting new life forms
The Gene Industry
Major companies are already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology. They dream of placing enzymes (酶) in the automobile to monitor exhaust and send data on pollution to a microprocessor (微处理器) that will then adjust the engine. They speak of what the New York Times calls metal--hungry microbes that might be used to mine valuable trace metals from ocean water. They have already demanded and won the right to patent new life forms.
Nervous critics, including many scientists, worry that there is corporate, national, international, and inter-scientific rivalry in the entire biotechnological (生物科技的) field. They create images not of oil spills, but of microbe spills that could spread disease and destroy entire populations. The creation and accidental release of extremely poisonous microbes, however, is only one cause for alarm. Completely rational and respectable scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger (使震惊) the imagination.
Should we breed people with cowlike stomachs so they can digest grass and hay, thereby relieving the food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the food chain? Should we biologically alter workers to fit the job requirement, for example, creating pilots with faster reaction times or assembly-line workers designed to do our monotonous work for us? Should we attempt to eliminate inferior people and breed a super-race? (Hitler tried this, but without the genetic weaponry that may soon issue from our laboratories.) Should we produce soldiers to do our fighting? Should we use genetic (遗传的) forecasting to pre-eliminate (除去) unfit (不合适的) babies? Should we grow reserve organs for ourselves, each of us having, as it were, a "savings bank " full of spare kidney, livers, or hands?
Wild as thses notions may sound, every one has its advocates (and opposers) in the scientific community as well as its striking commercial application. As two critics of genetic engineering, Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, state in their book Who Should Play God? "Broad scale genetic engineering will probably be introduced to America much the same way sa assembly lines, automobiles, vaccines, computers and all the other technologies. As each new genetic advance boomes commercially practical, a new consumer need will be exploitde and a market for the new technology will be created. "
According to the passage, the new biology could potentially solve the pollution problem of automobiles by
A.using metal-hungry microbes.
B.making use of enzymes.
C.adjusting the engines.
D.patenting new lifeforms.
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